Team
No league tables, no trophies: how Norway made sport fun for kids – and built a football team that beat Brazil
At full time, the arithmetic felt wrong. A team from a country of 5.5 million people, back at a World Cup after 28 years away, had just beaten the...
Whether you’re Team Charles or Team Harry, this latest twist in their relationship is desperately sad | Polly Hudson
Perhaps because it involves kings and princes, we can be forgiven for hoping that they were going to live happily ever after in the end, like in a fairytale....
Tour de France 2026: Jonas Vingegaard in yellow after Barcelona team time trial
Jonas Vingegaard stunned Tadej Pogacar by taking the first yellow jersey of the 2026 Tour de France after his Visma-Lease a Bike team won the opening stage of this...
Tour de France 2026 stage one: race begins with team time-trial in Barcelona – live
Key eventsWho are the Tour de France favourites?Look no further than Tadej Pogacar. He seems to find a way to improve every single year, challenging for every Monument one-day...
Germany are no longer a tournament team and must reconnect with our own identity
I am stunned. Germany have been eliminated early from a World Cup for the third time in a row. I need time to recover from this. The key word...
Forest Green Rovers scrap women’s team to ‘concentrate resources’ on men’s side
Forest Green Rovers have disbanded their women’s team for the 2026-27 season so that they can “concentrate their resources” on trying to return their men’s team to the English...
The great paradox of Scotland’s World Cup. The fans, superb. The team? Dismal | Ewan Murray
The sad thing is that in a matter of weeks, this will all have been forgotten about. The intensely tribal nature of Scotland’s football domain means that a new...
World Cup Q&A: our US soccer team answers your questions on stadiums, Lalas, hydration breaks and more – live
Key eventsWhat’s the reaction to Alexi Lalas’s punditry been like?Jan Olsson asks: Is Alexi Lalas actually a character comedian? double quotation markPablo: It’s been fascinating to watch the discourse...
